D3football.com Around the Nation Podcast
The OG among Division III football podcasts, part of Division III football and D3football.com since 2007.
Episodes
October 13, 2025 • 83 mins
These are the things that make up Division III football this time of year. W's and L's as in wins and losses, X's and O's as in how plays and schemes are drawn up on paper, and 0's and 1's as in the data that is used to determine who will make the playoffs and how they'll be seeded, in the NCAA Power Index.
We got the first look at the NCAA's version of the data in the NPI this week, and no surprise to anyone here that the data fu...
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October 7, 2025 • 83 mins
Ah yes, we not only go from the land of serious tailgating to also serious tailgating. From 20,000 fans to 6,500 fans in a rivalry game. These are two great tastes that tasted great together on Saturday, part of a smorgasbord of great Division III football, with so many games that we actually didn't even talk about Muhlenberg-Ursinus in this podcast. (But we will probably talk about Muhlenberg at some point.)
Here's who you will ...
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September 29, 2025 • 83 mins
You've gotten the stop, pounced on a fumble, you're celebrating a key win to open up your conference slate. Only then do the officials huddle up, and without the benefit of replay, overturn the call originally made on the field and give the team which by all rights lost the game another chance.
You'd be forgiven, perhaps, if it took you more than the customary 24 hours to get that emotion out of your system, to turn the page.
If ...
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September 22, 2025 • 87 mins
For some teams, a 3-0 start is precisely in the plan. For others, 3-0 is perhaps a pipe dream, or a first-time occurrence.
In this week's edition of the podcast, we talk about a few of each as we wrap up Week 3 of the Division III football season.
Johns Hopkins was given just about a 50% chance of starting the season 3-0, with some top-flight competition on the docket. But they got the job done, and we learned a little bit about...
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September 15, 2025 • 80 mins
It's sad to think that we are already phasing out of Great Non-Conference Game Season, but at least it is leaving us with some quality memories. Yes, Mary Hardin-Baylor and UW-Whitewater still get to grace us with their presence, and so do Springfield and UW-Platteville, and Johns Hopkins and Susquehanna, but ... well, OK, we'll hold on for one more week.
Meanwhile, the rest of the ranked teams got on the field this week in Week 2...
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September 8, 2025 • 91 mins
Finally, games! A huge week of Division III football, with a couple of thrilling upsets, and more than 200 Division III teams taking the field, means there's a lot to talk about.
So, we in the media were admonished not to overreact, huh? All we have to do is look at our social media feeds if we want to see overreactions run wild, but we'll play Michael Wilbon's game. We decided to take four big storylines from this week's games an...
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September 1, 2025 • 84 mins
Games kick off two days from now, so there's no time like the present for a Week 1 preview! Patrick and Greg take you through Division III football's opening week, going region by region with a region Game of the Week and more games to watch in each region, Region 1 through Region 6.
Plus, we bring back J.P. Williams, the NCAA's liaison for the Division III football championship, aka the person at the NCAA who runs point on the fo...
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August 25, 2025 • 78 mins
Teams are in camp, some of them with new head coaches, and few head coaches are in a more interesting situation than Cortland coach Tom Blumenauer. He is in his first training camp as the Red Dragons' head coach, and he's working with a team that won a national title just 20 months ago, but lost a well-loved and highly successful head coach in the offeseason. Plus, he's an Ithaca graduate. We talk to him about what he's seen in cam...
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July 30, 2025 • 96 mins
How about that as the handy guide for topics for discussion in the latest edition of our podcast, namely, ATN Podcast 382?
We talk about the preseason Top 25, and the wide range in voting for lots of teams, not just for North Central. Seriously, UW-La Crosse has a far wider range of spots from our 25 pollsters, and so do a number of other schools. Plus, we bring in Kean coach Dan Garrett, who can tell you what might be on a coach'...
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June 30, 2025 • 83 mins
It's been a spicy past month or so and when you're coming up on a food-related holiday like the 4th of July, we're keeping the fire hot and the burgers, dogs, bratwurst, corn on the cob and more so that you can grill us with your questions. That's right -- we've got some great mailbag questions and we tackle as many of them as possible on this edition of the podcast.
Plus ...
This edition of the podcast is sponsored by GameStrat:...
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May 27, 2025 • 62 mins
For the first time, we whipped out our passport to go abroad to cover a Division III football story. Twenty-six years into running the website and in the 19th year of the podcast and yes, there can still be new things. A number of Division III schools left the country to give their student-athletes an educational experience and to also play a spring football game, and we followed along with one of those teams and you can follow alo...
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April 29, 2025 • 74 mins
That dozen is not just the number of D-III players currently known to have received an invite to an NFL training camp, for sure. How big of a breakfast does it take to feed an NFL offensive lineman? What did new-old Franklin coach Mike Leonard do when he was away from coaching the Grizzlies for the past five years? And why does Illinois College coach Ray DeFrisco keep coming back, year after year?
Those are some of the key questio...
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March 31, 2025 • 77 mins
After keeping fans waiting for more than a year, the American Southwest Conference finally had something to say about its membership situation, and it did so with a bang, swiping two teams from the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference to shore up its membership and bring it back to six for the fall of 2026.
Who does that affect? It affects the SCAC folks, who were on the way to getting an automatic bid to the NCAA playoffs, and...
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February 6, 2025 • 86 mins
The current football student-athletes of the NESCAC are probably too young to envision a crowd of fans in the Astrodome chanting "Let them play!" about the Bad News Bears. They are too young to remember the Astrodome. And they are nothing like the Bad News Bears, but still, the powers-that-be in the New England Small College Athletic Conference have not allowed their conference teams to participate in the Division III football play...
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January 6, 2025 • 61 mins
Whether it was a Red-Letter Day or a Red Dawn or Red Cardinals Fly at Night, Stagg Bowl LI was another example of the ongoing red shift in Division III football, as North Central won its third title in its five consecutive trips to the Stagg Bowl and ensured that the Walnut and Bronze would have a red tint to it for the third year in a row.
Luke Lehnen reached the remaining records in the book. The offensive line kept his uniform...
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January 4, 2025 • 74 mins
North Central and Mount Union are back, and we're ready to get you to kickoff of Stagg Bowl LI on Sunday night. How healthy are each of these teams? What new wrinkles might we see offensively? How many snaps will Noah Beaudrie get at quarterback for Mount Union? How many passes will Luke Lehnen end up throwing for North Central?
We give you a taste of what we hear from players from both sides of the ball, whether it's Luke and the...
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December 23, 2024 • 60 mins
We're down to the best two teams in Division III football, both of whom are playing their best games at the right time. Mount Union is certainly firing on all cylinders now on offense after some struggles during the regular season, and you'd be hard-pressed to find more than one thing that went wrong for North Central as they absolutely demolished Susquehanna.
How did they get here? What do we do with the two weeks off? Who benefi...
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December 16, 2024 • 66 mins
Touchdown or no touchdown? Hold or no hold? Should the game have been over?
So many questions, and not the ones we would prefer to be asking about a game in the Division III football national quarterfinals. And yes, there were many questions about the final moments of the Bethel-Susquehanna game, and whether they should have been the final moments, so to break it all down, we talk to someone who was there on the sidelines taking ...
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December 9, 2024 • 69 mins
Yep, we all thought we knew exactly what to expect from the round of 16 of the Division III football playoffs.
What did we get instead? Something way, way more interesting. That's the national champion being ousted. That's St. John's falling at home on the final play of the game. And that's a bracket with four quarterfinal games, three of which are being hosted by teams in Region 2 and none in Minnesota, Wisconsin or Ohio. (Shout ...
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December 2, 2024 • 71 mins
Now everyone in the playoffs has played at least one postseason game, or if you look at it another way, more than 60% of the playoff games are already over. And people are in a hurry to dismiss the WIAC, and they're in a hurry to crown NPI, because higher seeds have won 21 of the 24 games. (Of course, higher seeds have been at home in 23 out of 24 games, which might be a factor.)
What did we learn from these games? Of the remainin...
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